Sticky

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having the property of adhering or sticking to a surface; adhesive.
  • adj. Covered with an adhesive agent.
  • adj. Warm and humid; muggy: a sticky day.
  • adj. Informal Painful or difficult: a sticky situation.
  • adj. Economics Tending to remain the same despite changes in the economy. Used of prices or wages.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Able or likely to stick.
  • adj. Potentially difficult to escape from.
  • adj. Persistent.
  • adj. Appearing on all virtual desktops.
  • adj. Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
  • adj. Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
  • adj. Of weather, hot and wind-less and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
  • n. A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
  • n. A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
  • v. to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the property of adhering to a surface; inclining to stick; adhesive; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
  • Humid; producing stickiness; muggy: as, a disagreeable, sticky day.
  • Like a stick; stiff.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body
  • adj. hot or warm and humid
  • adj. hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
  • adj. covered with an adhesive material
  • adj. having the sticky properties of an adhesive
  • Equivalent
    wet    difficult    hard    adhesive   
    Verb Form
    stickies   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adhesive    gluey    viscous    viscid    glutinous    tenacious    clingy    clinging    cohesive    agglutinative   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dickey    Dickie    Dicky    Hickey    Mickey    Micky    Nicki    Nicky    Niki    Nikki   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    oily    wet    moist    slimy    muddy    viscous    slick    greenish    shiny    clammy